Simulate monitor device

Question

I'm having an old PC running Ubuntu desktop edition, with no keyboard / mouse / screen - I'm accessing it only via ssh. I'd like to run X11 for using VNC - however - startx commands returns

Fatal server error:
no screens found

How do I simulate the screen in order to use VNC?

possible duplicate of Ubuntu 14.04 - Add Fake Display when No Monitor is Plugged In — user.dz, May 08 '14 at 18:35

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 19 '12 at 10:50

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You can "forward" a GUI application to be displayed on your local machine while physically running on the remote server using ssh -X

ssh -X user@host
Password:

user@host# gedit

this should open an editor window on your local machine.

See man ssh for more information.

answered Nov 19 '12 at 10:50

Sergey

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I believe that will be a problem as I'm connecting from windows. I need to use VNC. – migajek Nov 19 '12 at 10:57

Simulate monitor device

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